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Heterocladium heteropterum B. & S. Bamford Wood, Whitehead. 

 Bolton, Makin (Dixon). 



"^'Thuidium tamariscinum B. & S. Hightown and Formby ! ! Near 

 Clitheroe ! ! 



Climacium dendroides W. & M. Formby, Marrat I Hightown ! ! 

 Ainsdale ! 



Isothecium myiirum Bnd. Shawforth, Grmdon. 



Pleuropus sericeus Dixon. Aintree, Higgiiis d Marrat. Bootle ! ! 

 Clitheroe and Chatburn ! 



Camptothecium lutescens B. & S. Crosby, Skellon. Kersal Moor, 

 Holt. 



Brachythecluin glareosum B. & S. Kersal Moor, Holt. — B. sale- 

 brosum B. & S. Crosby to Southport, Marrat. This is var. Milde- 

 anum Schpr. ! ! — B. albicans B. & S. Crosby, Fisher 1 ! Southport, 

 Marrat I ! Formby, Dickinson ! ! Abundant on the sand-hills ; 

 fruiting freely. — *L\ rutabuluin B. & S. Very common throughout 

 the district! ! — B. rivulare B. & S. Eeddish, Whitehead. Holden 

 Clough ! ! — B. velutinum B. & S. Broadgreen, Harrison. Lither- 

 land, Tudor ! ! Eeddish, Whitehead. Walton ! ! Southport ! ! — 

 B. populeuni B. & S. Bamford Wood, Whitehead. CHtheroe ! ! — B. 

 plumosum B. & S. Ashworth Wood, Grindon. Bamford Wood, 

 Whitehead. B. pur am Dixon. Frequent! Formby c. ft., Marraf. 



Eurhijnchium pilifenim B. & S. Garston, Marrat. Ince Wood ! ! 

 — ^E. crassinervium B. & S. Hightown ! ! — "^E. prcelongum B. & S. 

 Very common. Fazackerley ! ! Clitheroe ! ! — E. Swartzii Hobk. 

 Wmwick, Grindon. Walton ! ! — E. piimiluni Schp. Knowsley 

 Park, Harrison. Winwick Quarry, Grindon. Bamford Wood, Holt. 

 — E. mgosuroides Schp. Croxteth, Rarrisoji. Chtheroe!! — E. 

 striatum B. & S. Broadgreen, Harrison. — "^'E. rusciforme Milde. 

 Skelmersdale, G asking \ Reddish! — E. confertum M.Mq. Roby, 

 Harrison. Walton ! ! Melling ! ! — E. megapolitanum Milde. Crosby, 

 Harrison S Wilson. Birkdale ! ! 



* Plagiothecium depressum Dixon. Fazackerley ! ! — P. Borrerianum 

 Spr. Bamford AVood, Whitehead. — --F. dejiticulatum B. & S. Ain- 

 tree ! ! Linacre ! ! Common. — Var. obtusifoliiim H. & T. — Lark 

 Hill, Skellon. — P. sglvaticum B. & S. Warbreck Moor, Marrat. 

 Not there now ? P. undulatum B. & S. Gateacre, Hirrison. Sim- 

 monswood Moss, Skellon. Warbreck Moor, Higgins S Marrat. Not 

 in latter locality now. — P. pidchellum B. & S. Burnley, Dearden ! ! 



Amblystegium Sprucei B. & S. Southport, Wood. — (A. radicale 

 P. B. Huyton, Higgins d Marrat.) Requires confirmation. — Var. 

 serotinum Lindb. Southport, Rogers. — A. varium Ldb. Stretford, 

 Hunt. — A. Jilicinum De Not. Olive Mount, Harrison. Dingle, 

 Gasking ! Clitheroe ! A peculiar form of this plant occurs at 

 Birkdale, which I described and figured in Science Gossip, January, 

 1896. I have since issued it under the MS. name of var. White- 

 headii. Since then I have submitted specimens to Mr. Dixon, who, 

 while admitting it to be a marked form, which has not been before 

 described as a variety, suggests for the present it had better be 

 placed under /orma prolixa De Not., " as, if not the same, it is too 

 near to be really separable." With this decision I agree ; but 



